Shane Rimmer
Acting • Born 1929-05-28 – Died 2019-03-29
Biography
Shane Rimmer was a Canadian actor, voice actor and screenwriter, known for providing the voice of Scott Tracy in the British television series Thunderbirds. He has mostly performed in supporting roles, frequently in films and television series filmed in the United Kingdom, having relocated to England in the late 1950s. His appearances include roles in such widely-known films as Dr Strangelove (1964), Rollerball (1975), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Gandhi (1982), Out of Africa (1985) and Crusoe (1989). More recently, he has appeared in Spy Game (2001) and Batman Begins (2005). In the earlier years of his career, there were several uncredited performances, among others for films such as You Only Live Twice (1967), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Star Wars (1977) and Superman II (1980). With the exception of recurring featured cast members, he has appeared in more James Bond films than any other actor. Rimmer has a long association with Gerry Anderson. Thunderbirds fans may recognise him as the voice actor behind the character Scott Tracy. He drafted the plotline for the penultimate episode, "Ricochet", which was later turned into a script by Tony Barwick. He also wrote scripts and provided uncredited voices for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 and The Secret Service, has made appearances in episodes of Anderson's live-action UFO and The Protectors, and has provided voices for Space: 1999 and has guest-starred in the episode "Space Brain". In later years, he starred in the unscreened pilot Space Police (later made into a series with other actors and titled Space Precinct) and provided the voice for Anderson's stop-motion gumshoe Dick Spanner, P.I. Rimmer and fellow Anderson actor Ed Bishop often joked about how often their professional paths crossed and termed themselves "Rent-a-Yanks". They appeared together as NASA operatives in the opening of You Only Live Twice and as USN sailors in The Bedford Incident, as well as touring together in live stage shows, including "Death of a Salesman" in the 1990s. He also appeared in Doctor Who in 1966, and in Coronation Street as two different characters: Joe Donnelli (1968–1970), who held Stan Ogden hostage in No. 5 before committing suicide, and Malcolm Reid (1988), father of Audrey Roberts' son Stephen. He has made many guest appearances in British television series for ITV, including in Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, and ITC's The Persuaders!. In 1989, Rimmer was reunited with former Gerry Anderson actors Ed Bishop and Matt Zimmerman in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet. Rimmer and Bishop also appeared in the BBC drama-documentary Hiroshima, completed not long after Bishop's death in 2005. Note: His official website and travel record on the Immigration & Travel section of Ancestry give his year of birth as 1929.
Filmography
139 credits
Star Wars
Movie • 1977
InCom Engineer (uncredited)
Out of Africa
Movie • 1985
Belknap, farm manager
Warlords of Atlantis
Movie • 1978
Captain Daniels
Mee-Shee: The Water Giant
Movie • 2005
Bob Anderson
The Hunger
Movie • 1983
Arthur Jelinek
The Human Factor
Movie • 1975
CIA Man
Company Business
Movie • 1991
Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics
Thunderbird 6
Movie • 1968
Scott Tracy (voice)
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
Movie • 1978
US Colonel
Alien Autopsy
Movie • 2006
Colonel
The People That Time Forgot
Movie • 1977
Hogan
S*P*Y*S
Movie • 1974
Hessler
Thunderbirds Are GO
Movie • 1966
Scott Tracy (voice)
White Nights
Movie • 1985
Ambassador Larry Smith
Spy Game
Movie • 2001
Estate Agent
The Lonely Lady
Movie • 1983
Alternative 3
Movie • 1977
Bob Grodin
Space Police
Movie • 1986
Lt. Chuck Brogan
Diamonds Are Forever
Movie • 1971
Tom (uncredited)
Breakthrough at Reykjavik
Movie • 1987
George Schulz
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Movie • 1970
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Movie • 1987
Lisander Stark
A Kiss Before Dying
Movie • 1991
Commissioner Malley
Rollerball
Movie • 1975
Rusty, Team Executive
Space Truckers
Movie • 1996
E. J. Saggs
A Dangerous Age
Movie • 1957
Nancy's Father
Crusoe
Movie • 1989
Mr. Mather
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Movie • 1964
Capt. 'Ace' Owens
A Kid in King Arthur's Court
Movie • 1995
Coach
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Movie • 1977
Col. Franklin
Reds
Movie • 1981
MacAlpine
Arabian Adventure
Movie • 1979
Abu
Dick Spanner P.I.: The Case of the Screaming Dame
Movie • 2017
Dick Spanner (voice)
Reunion at Fairborough
Movie • 1985
Joe Szyluk
Batman Begins
Movie • 2005
Older Gotham Water Board Technician
Nairobi Affair
Movie • 1984
Red King, White Knight
Movie • 1989
Gandhi
Movie • 1982
Commentator
Superman
Movie • 1978
Naval Transport Commander (uncredited)
Hanover Street
Movie • 1979
Col. Ronald Bart
Thunderbirds in Outer Space
Movie • 1981
Scott Tracy (voice)
Dockers
Movie • 1999
US Longshoreman
Dreamchild
Movie • 1985
Mr. Marl
Thunderbirds to the Rescue
Movie • 1980
Scott Tracy / Radar Operator (voice)
Last Video and Testament
Movie • 1984
Dr. Hersh
Superman II
Movie • 1980
Controller
Dark Shadows
Movie • 2012
Board Member #1
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
Movie • 1985
Brod Sarnton
Baffled!
Movie • 1973
Track Announcer
Of Pure Blood
Movie • 1986
The Colonel
The Spy Who Loved Me
Movie • 1977
Cmdr. Carter
Priest of Love
Movie • 1981
Chief Immigration Officer
Darkwave: Edge of the Storm
Movie • 2016
Anderson
Caught in the Act
Movie • 2004
Father
The Bedford Incident
Movie • 1965
Seaman 1st Class - C.I.C.
Professional Foul
Movie • 1977
Stone
Morons from Outer Space
Movie • 1985
Redneck (Melvin)
Gulag
Movie • 1985
Jay
Charlie Muffin
Movie • 1979
Braley
The Last Days of Patton
Movie • 1986
Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball
You Only Live Twice
Movie • 1967
Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)
The Billion Dollar Bubble
Movie • 1978
Fred Levin
Scorpio
Movie • 1973
Cop in Hotel
The Saint: The Software Murders
Movie • 1990
Bob Harrison
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
Movie • 2000
Self
Double Vision
Movie • 1992
Caroline & Lisa's Father
Nasty Habits
Movie • 1977
Officer I / C
One of the Hollywood Ten
Movie • 2002
Parnell Thomas
The Holcroft Covenant
Movie • 1985
Lt. Miles
Roman Holiday
Movie • 1987
Hogan
Doctor Who: The Gunfighters
Movie • 1966
Seth Harper
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Movie • 2006
Controller #2
This Is Supermarionation
Movie • 2014
Scott Tracy (voice)
Superman III
Movie • 1983
State Policeman
Flaming Frontier
Movie • 1958
Running Bear
The Investigator
Movie • 1973
John (voice)
Pretty Princess
Movie • 1993
Mr. Hughes
Filmed in Supermarionation
Movie • 2014
Self
The Day the Sky Exploded
Movie • 1958
John McLaren (uncredited) (voice)
Whoops Apocalypse
Movie • 1986
Marvin Gelber (US Secretary of State)
Countdown to Disaster
Movie • 1982
Scott Tracy (voice)
UFO From Earth to the Moon
Movie • 2016
Self
I Know What I Meant
Movie • 1974
Donald Ziegler
Only Love
Movie • 1998
Warren Oliver
Invasion: UFO
Movie • 1980
Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien / CIA Agent
Thunderbirds: Trapped in the Sky
Movie • 1965
Scott Tracy/TX 204 Co-pilot (voice)
Thunderbirds: Terror In New York City
Movie • 1965
Scott Tracy/Scanners/Washington
Thunderbirds 60th Anniversary Double Bill - Trapped in the Sky / Terror in New York City
Movie • 2025
Scott Tracy (voice)
Year of the Comet
Movie • 1992
Hiroshima
Movie • 2005
James F. Byrnes
The Dogs of War
Movie • 1980
Dr. Oaks
Space: 1999
TV • 1975
James Kelly
Thunderbirds
TV • 1965
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Janet Murdoch
Dick Spanner
TV • 1987
Dick Spanner
The Persuaders!
TV • 1971
Harvey Lomax
UFO
TV • 1970
Bill Johnson
The Protectors
TV • 1972
Vickers
Joe 90
TV • 1968
Kelly (voice)
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
TV • 2003
Oppenheimer
TV • 1980
Ed Condon
Compact
TV • 1962
Van der Valk
TV • 1972
Lovell J Wallace
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
TV • 1983
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
TV • 1973
Police Sergeant Warren
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
TV • 1984
Hersh
Quiller
TV • 1975
Harry Brent
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
TV • 1983
Detective Murphy
Mistral's Daughter
TV • 1984
Harry Klein
Thunderbirds
TV • 1965
Reactor Control Assistant (voice)
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
TV • 1987
Doorman
Casualty
TV • 1986
Ed Rhinehart
Thunderbirds
TV • 1965
Scott Tracy
Return of the Saint
TV • 1978
Falco
Secret Army
TV • 1977
Canadian Commandant
Lace
TV • 1984
Press Agent
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Seth Harper
Space: 1999
TV • 1975
Eagle Pilot (voice)
Space: 1999
TV • 1975
Bannion (voice)
The Fortunate Pilgrim
TV • 1988
Reilly
Space: 1999
TV • 1975
Maintenance Section Voice (voice) (uncredited)
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Marine Sergeant
The Saint
TV • 1962
Major Smith
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
TV • 1957
Farber
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Arthur Beauchamp
UFO
TV • 1970
CIA Agent
A Very British Coup
TV • 1988
Secretary of State
The Protectors
TV • 1972
Zeke
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Ambassador Bingham
Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes
TV • 2020
Scott Tracy (voice)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
TV • 1967
Mason (voice)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
TV • 1967
Pilot (voice)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
TV • 1967
Sergeant (voice)
The Bourne Identity
TV • 1988
General Conklin
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Corporal Girtin
A Man Called Intrepid
TV • 1979
Willoughby
Second Verdict
TV • 1976
Harold Giles Hoffman
Lipstick on Your Collar
TV • 1993
Lieutenant Colonel Trekker
The Rose Medallion
TV • 1981
Sgt Ed Kusborski